linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v4 32/47] serial: ucc_uart: use of_property_read_u32() in ucc_uart

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Message-ID: <f584ea71-694f-3d3a-7228-9232531e3918@rasmusvillemoes.dk>
Date:   Fri, 15 Nov 2019 08:57:02 +0100
From:   Rasmus Villemoes <linux@...musvillemoes.dk>
To:     Timur Tabi <timur@...nel.org>
Cc:     Qiang Zhao <qiang.zhao@....com>, Li Yang <leoyang.li@....com>,
        Christophe Leroy <christophe.leroy@....fr>,
        linuxppc-dev@...ts.ozlabs.org,
        linux-arm-kernel <linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org>,
        lkml <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        Scott Wood <oss@...error.net>, linux-serial@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v4 32/47] serial: ucc_uart: use of_property_read_u32() in
 ucc_uart_probe()

On 15/11/2019 05.25, Timur Tabi wrote:
> On Fri, Nov 8, 2019 at 7:03 AM Rasmus Villemoes
> <linux@...musvillemoes.dk> wrote:
>>
>> +       if (of_property_read_u32(np, "cell-index", &val) &&
>> +           of_property_read_u32(np, "device-id", &val)) {
> 
> I know that this is technically correct, but it's obfuscated IMHO.
> 'val' is set correctly only when of_property_read_u32(...) is "false",
> which is doubly-weird because of_property_read_u32(...) doesn't
> actually return a boolean.
> 
> I would rather you break this into two if-statements like the original code.
> 

Sure, I can do that.